New Books in Science, Technology, and...

Interviews with Scholars of Science, Technology, and Society about their New Books

Science
Social Sciences
1951
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
51 min
1952
Adrian Currie, "Rock, Bone, and Ruin: An Optimi...
Currie explains that these scientists are “methodological omnivores,” with a variety of strategies and techniques at their disposal, and that this gives us every reason to be optimistic about their capacity to uncover truths about prehistory...
52 min
1953
Neil Selwyn, "What is Digital Sociology?" (Poli...
Selwyn examines the concepts, tools and practices that sociologists are developing to analyze the intersections of the social and the digital...
53 min
1954
Margaret E. Roberts, "Censored: Distraction and...
Roberts reveals the nuances of Chinese censorship in the age of the internet...
47 min
1955
Joseph Reagle, "Hacking Life: Systematized Livi...
Reagle examines these attempts to systematize living and finds that they are the latest in a long series of self-improvement methods...
73 min
1956
Maurice Finocchiaro, "On Trial for Reason: Scie...
Finocchiaro shows that there were (and are) really two Galileo “affairs.”
61 min
1957
Tweeting the Word of God: Evangelism from a "Di...
An interview with Ryan P. Burge
10 min
1958
Great Books: Julie Carlson on Mary Shelley's "F...
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus when she was nineteen years old on a bet...
50 min
1959
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, "Übermensch: Plädoyer Fü...
Sorgner makes the case for a Nietzschean transhumanism...
74 min
1960
Melissa Kravetz, "Women Doctors in Weimar and N...
Kravetz examines how German women physicians gained a foothold in the medical profession during the Weimar and Nazi periods,..
57 min
1961
Nancy Appelbaum, "Mapping the Country of Region...
Appelbaum reconstructs how elites, through visual and textual methodologies, envisioned the nation and its component parts...
57 min
1962
Jacob Turner, "Robot Rules: Regulating Artifici...
Turner explains why AI is unique, what legal and ethical problems it could cause, and how we can address them...
73 min
1963
Adrian Wisnicki, "Fieldwork of Empire, 1840-190...
Adrian Wisnicki talks about the British expeditionary literature of the late 1800s.
31 min
1964
Jerome Whitington, "Anthropogenic Rivers: The P...
Whitington examines the dynamics and discourses centered around the development of hydropower dams in the Mekong River Basin...
38 min
1965
Kate Devlin, "Turned On: Science, Sex and Robot...
Devlin builds on the science and the philosophy surrounding our most intimate relationship with technology...
61 min
1966
Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein, "Data Fem...
D'Ignazio and Klein call for changing the way we think about data and how it is communicated, particularly through visualization...
34 min
1967
Michael Rechtenwald, "Google Archipelago: The D...
Rechtenwald argues that Big Digital technologies and their principals represent not only economic powerhouses but also new forms of governmental power...
97 min
1968
David J. Gunkel, "Robot Rights" (MIT Press, 2018)
Should robots have rights?
88 min
1969
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
1970
Sarah Fawn Montgomery, "Quite Mad: An American ...
If you live in America, chances are good you’ve heard the term “mental health crisis” bandied about in the media...
35 min
1971
Amy Shira Teitel, "Breaking the Chains of Gravi...
Amy Shira Teitel talks about Apollo and the community of people who are deeply attached to space history.
27 min
1972
Alistair Sponsel, "Darwin’s Evolving Identity: ...
Dr. Alistair Sponsel talks about Darwin’s experiences on HMS Beagle and his early career as a naturalist...
33 min
1973
Angela Jones, "Camming: Money, Power, and Pleas...
Jones engages readers in a five-year mixed-methods study she conducted on the erotic webcam industry where she tells a pornographic story about the multibillion-dollar online sex industry that is colloquially known as “camming.”
50 min
1974
Francesca Minerva, "The Ethics of Cryonics: Is ...
Minerva discusses the moral concerns of cryonics...
57 min
1975
Germaine R. Halegoua, "The Digital City: Media ...
Halegoua rethinks everyday interactions that humans have with digital infrastructures, navigation technologies, and social media as we move through the world...
51 min